For the period ending July 10, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

 

DVD New Additions

 

4 Digital Media

07/07/20 — Released Secret Weapon (Russian)

Artsploitation Films

07/07/20 — Released Prince (Spanish)

B-Boy Productions, LLC (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Mark of the Devil 666: The Moralist and Safe Inside

Bayview Entertainment

09/15/20 — Sets Boy on the Bridge (Greek), Debt of Maximilian, Idled, No Petrol, No Diesel, No Vendetta No Party (Italian), Reap, Running From the Dead (aka: 6 Feet Below Hell), Uncle Ed's Bucket List and Waimate Conspiracy

Blue Forge Films (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Laurels (German) (2 disc set)

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

06/30/20 — Released Code: The Complete Series (3 disc set) and Strange Angel: Season One (3 disc set)

Championship Productions

07/07/20 — Released Open Practice: 'Team 44' & Drills, Open Practice: Station Drills for Defense, Open Practice: Station Drills for Offense, Organizing a Lock-Down Man-to-Man Defense and Smothering Man-to-Man Switching Defense

Charles Smiley Productions                  `

06/30/20 — Released Colorado Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Remembrances

Cleopatra Entertainment

09/11/20 — Sets Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld - Winter Stories: Live From The Oslo Opera House (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Dreamscape Media, LLC

07/07/20 — Released Walter the Whale Shark: And His Teeny Tiny Teeth

Film Movement (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Between Shadow and Soul

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Batsh*t Bride

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released American Dreadnought, Battle: Operation Piranha and Mount Desert Island Through the Camera Lens

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Alone Wolf, American Tragedy, Gamemaster, I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story, Skyman and Sweetness in the Bell

Hallmark Channel

06/30/20 — Released Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy

07/07/20 — Released Love on Iceland

High Octane Entertainment, LLC (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Dead Voices, Man from Kathmandu and Termination

I-Cine

07/07/20 — Released Dieu Bi Mat (12 disc set)

ITN Distribution

07/07/20 — Released Scientist and Tooth Fairy: Root of Evil (aka: Toothfairy 2)

Icarus Films

09/08/20 — Sets Cordillera of Dreams (Spanish) (ARR of 207 days; box office: $20,943)

Image Entertainment

07/07/20 — Released Belzebuth

Kino Lorber

07/07/20 — Released Day the Earth Caught Fire, Flesh and the Fiends, Go Go Mania, Neurosis (French) and That'll be the Day

Leomark Stuidos, LLC (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Stagknight, Stir and Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains

MVD Entertainment Group

10/13/20 — Sets New Blood

Magnolia Home Entertainment

07/07/20 — Released Slay the Dragon

Maverick Entertainment

07/07/20 — Released Stolen Lilies

Mellotron Records (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Ryo Okumoto Live In Tokyo, Japan

Mill Creek Entertainment

09/15/20 — Released Con Men: 4 Action Movies (4 film set: Thick as Thieves, The Rundown, Catch a Fire, Body Count) (2 disc set) and Opposites Attract: Romantic Comedy 4 Movie Collection (4 film set: Duplicity, Greenberg, Scoop, Possession) (2 disc set)

Newt’s Classic Movie Store (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Captain January, Ed Wood Double Feature (2 film set: Night of the Ghouls, Plan 9 From Outer Space) (2 disc set) and Fire Maidens From Outer Space

Once Upon a Tale

07/07/20 — Released Pup Tales: Chicken Diddle

Paramount Home Media

09/08/20 — Sets PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue

Passion River

07/07/20 — Released Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth and Things We Keep

Pentrex

06/30/20 — Released Workin on the Coast Starlight

07/07/20 — Released Dames & Dreams, Deadly Crush, Girls Guns and Blood, Stab Kill Die (aka: The Hard Cut) and Take Back the Knife

Pirate Shade Productions (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Kniamon Dinosaur Tales

Quiver Films

07/07/20 — Released Lost Husband

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

06/30/20 — Released Indian Scarf (German) and Kuhl Wampe (German)

07/07/20 — Released Black Abbott (German), Das Madchen Johanna (German), Der Hexer (German), Mark of the Tortoise (German), Neues Vom Hexer (German) and Sprung in Den Abgrund (German)

ReelclassicDVD.com (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Forbidden City (silent-1918), Great War and the Little Tramp (4 silent short films: Shoulder Arms (1918), The Bond (1918), The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), America Goes Over (1927)), Original Felix the Cat (13 animated short films), Our Gang Collection, Volume 4 (5 silent short films: Fire Fighters (1922), The Champeen (1923), Lodge Night (1923), Sunday Calm (1923), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1926)) and Our Gang Collection, Volume 5 (5 silent short films: Telling Whoppers (1926), Seeing the World (1927), Ten Years Old (1927), Baby Brother (1927), The Smile Wins (1928))

Rising Sun Media (MOD)

06/30/20 — Released Blood Empires

Rogue Video (MOD)

06/30/20 — Released Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, Oasis of the Zombies and Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

Samuel Goldwyn Films

07/07/20 — Released Judy & Punch and Mr. Jones

San Rafael Productions (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Incident at Guilt Ridge

Scorpion Releasing

07/07/20 — Released 3:15: The Moment of Truth, Cycle Savages, Death Warrant, Night Visitor and P.O.W.: The Escape

Screen Media

07/07/20 — Released Blood and Money

Shout! Factory

07/07/20 — Released Proximity

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released H2O Wrestling: Subterranean Violence, Vol. 7 - Lucky 777 - Williamsport, NJ

Sportsvideo.com (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Advanced Skateboarding: Tips and Tricks, Basketball Coaches Clinic - Mark Gottfried: Scoring with the Best in the State (2 disc set), Becoming a Better Boxer #2, Beginning Racquetball: Skills and Drills, Mastering Men's Gymnastics: Advanced Skills and Progressions, Mastering Men's Gymnastics: Intermediate Skills and Progressions, Winning Hockey: Defense, Winning Hockey: Dynamic Skating and Winning Hockey: Goaltending

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Assignment Outer Space, H-Man, Magic Serpent, Secret of the Telegian and Virus: Day of Resurrection

Trinity Creative

07/07/20 — Released Eastern Front

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent. (MOD)

06/23/20 — Released Bob's Burgers: The Complete Tenth Season (3 disc set), Empire: the Complete Sixth Season (4 disc set), Fresh Off the Boat: The Complete Sixth Season (2 disc set) and Last Man Standing: The Complete Seventh Season (3 disc set)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Homewrecker

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 21 (4 disc set) and Will & Grace (The Revival): Season Three (2 disc set)

Vega Baby Releasing (MOD)

06/30/20 — Released Deano & Nige's Best Last Day Ever and House That Jack Built

Village Heartbeat (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Whole Person Drumming: Your Journey into Rhythm

WOWnow Entertainment

07/07/20 — Released Little Foot and Pup School: Up in the Clouds

Blu-ray New Additions

Acorn Media

07/07/20 — Released Murdoch Mysteries: Season 13 (4 disc set)

Artsploitation

07/07/20 — Released Prince (Spanish)

FUNimation

07/07/20 — Released Cop Craft: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift? (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Shakugan no Shana Movie, Shakugan no Shana S: OVA,  Shakugan no Shana: Season One (4 disc set), Shakugan no Shana: Season Three (4 disc set) and Shakugan no Shana: Season Two (4 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Alone Wolf, American Tragedy, Gamemaster, I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story, Skyman and Sweetness in the Bell

Icarus Films

09/08/20 — Sets Cordillera of Dreams (Spanish)

Image Entertainment

07/07/20 — Released Belzebuth

Kino Lorber

07/07/20 — Released Day the Earth Caught Fire, Flesh and the Fiends (2 disc set), Go Go Mania, Neurosis (French), Spaced Invaders and That'll be the Day

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released American Wisper, Blood Mania, Escape Room: Quest of Fear (Russian) and Five Must Die

MVD Entertainment Group

10/13/20 — Sets New Blood

Naxos

07/07/20 — Released Adolphe Adam: Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

New Blood Entertainment

07/07/20 — Released Horrorathon, Volume One (11 short films: Human Cattle, Spilt Decision, Vengeance, Legend has it, Creeper, And Nothing Hurt, Sleep, The Locksmith, Out of Service, Star 69, Cannible Camp)

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released 2020 Sports Classics: 2008 PIAA 2A Football Championship, It's History: Winters Heritage House Museum, PCN Profiles: Carol Stoudt and Pennsylvania Country Roads: Yoder's Country Market and Ro-No Ranch

Rising Sun Media (MOD)

06/30/20 — Released Blood Empires

07/07/20 — Released Day of the Stranger, Girls Guns and Blood, Millennial Killer, Stab Kill Die (aka: The Hard Cut) and Take Back the Knife

Scorpion Releasing

07/07/20 — Released 3:15: The Moment of Truth, Cycle Savages, Death Warrant, Grunt! The Wrestling Movie, Night Visitor and P.O.W.: The Escape

Screen Media

07/07/20 — Released Blood and Money and Hope Gap

Sentai Filmworks

07/07/20 — Released Uta No Prince-Sama: Maji Love Kingdom

Shout! Factory

07/07/20 — Released Proximity

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

06/30/20 — Released Bizarro Lucha: 4 Letter Word - Indianapolis, IN, Bizarro Lucha: A Beautiful Enemy - Indianapolis, IN, Bizarro Lucha: Burning Sensation - Indianapolis, IN, Bizarro Lucha: Hatching the Egg - Indianapolis, IN, Bizarro Lucha: Into the Luchaverse - Indianapolis, IN, Bizarro Lucha: The Same as it Never Was - Indianapolis, IN and Bizarro Lucha: Who's Your Daddy - Indianapolis, IN

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Assignment Outer Space, H-Man, Magic Serpent, Secret of the Telegian and Virus: Day of Resurrection

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

08/25/20 — Sets Deep Blue Sea 3 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

09/08/20 — Sets Supergirl: The Complete Fifth Season (4 disc set, with bonus Blu-ray disc) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

08/11/20 — Sets Final Space: The Complete First & Second Seasons (4 disc set) and Michael

4K Ultra HD New Additions

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

10/13/20 — Sets District 9 (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Marquee Collection Status On The Blu-ray Debut Of Director Michael Hurst's New Blood On Oct. 13

MVD Entertainment Group has selected Oct. 13 for the Blu-ray debut of director Michael Hurst’s 1999 action flick, New Blood.   This will be a Marquee Collection promotion.

Remember back at the dawn of DVD when the studios were doing day-and-date DVD and VHS releases (whoa, do you even remember VHS?), that’s when New Blood was first available on DVD.   Household penetration for the new format was under ten percent and new releases came at a premium.   If you can find a copy of New Blood on DVD from back then, good for you … but for most, it is an unseen DVD release.

That all changes on Oct. 13 with MVD’s Marquee Collection promotion of Hurst’s all-action, all-star thriller on both DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray!!

Scheming and scamming is the name of the game as Alan White (played by John Hurt — Alien, The Elephant Man, Midnight Express, etc.) has a problem, his daughter, Emma, is dying in the hospital, in desperate need a heart transplant.

The film begins with him wounded and discovered by the police at a remote farmhouse.   It is total carnage … eight dead bodies!!!  

We now skip back to the night before and Emma’s twin brother, Danny (Nick Moran — as Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, etc.) — who is the perfect match — but he’s a reckless criminal and has little regard for his sister’s condition.

This all changes when his latest scheme goes south.   Him and his little band of cutthroats — the “New Blood” — were onto a big kidnapping score, but the proverbial “stuff” hit the fan, the mark was killed and poor Danny has been mortally wounded … not dead quite yet, but the clock is ticking.  

He finds his father — he hasn’t seen him in like eight years — and proposes a “deal.”   He knows he’s a walking dead man, but he needs his father to pull off one last con, it will only take a few hours, and then his heart can be used to save his sister.   He believes that his sacrifice will also save his friends.

This edge-of-your-seat thriller has a predetermined destiny — that farmhouse — but the getting there makes for a night of thrills and suspense like none other.  Danny will die, that’s a certainty, but will Emma live … and what of dear old dad!! 

Icarus Films To Release Both DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Director Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera Of Deams On Sept. 08

Icarus Films announced this past week that documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s Golden Eye award-winner at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, The Cordillera of Dreams, will be available as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings on Sept. 8.

In an absolute stunner, Guzmán’s third film in his Chile Trilogy (Nostalgia for the Light, The Pearl Button and now The Cordillera of Dreams) opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May of last year and captured the top award for documentary films and then proceeded to play the international film festival circuit during the months that fpllowed, where the buzz was electrifying.

In August of last year, word reached the domestic trade press that Icarus Films had acquired the North American rights to this Pyramide International and Atacama Productions release.

Icarus then carefully guided the film through the gauntlet of festival screening throughout the balance of 2019, with stops at TIFF DOCs, the Chicago International Film Festival and the showcase screening at the IFC Center in New York City.  With this process completed, the next step for Icarus Films was to release Guzmán’s film theatrically in the domestic marketplace, which took place on Valentine’s Day of this year.

Exactly one month into the film’s run all theatres in the United States shutdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.   That was it for the theatrical distribution of Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams … for the record, the ARR works out to 207 days.

All of this careful work was not wasted, Icarus Films was able to get the word out about Guzmán’s latest film, which will pay dividends in September.   

The story of The Cordillera of Dreams, of course, begins with filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s chronicling of the events that have unfolded since the 1970s in Chile, which is tied directly to his own personal experiences, including a daring escape from his native land and the Swiss Embassy spiriting his to-be-seized films out of the country before they could be destroyed.

His epic, three-part, The Battle of Chile chronicled the events that unfolded during the tumultuous 70s, burst upon the international scene in 1976 and Patricio Guzmán’s credentials as a filmmaker were firmly established. 

Over the years, The Southern Cross, The Pinochet Case, Salvador Allende, Nostalgia for the Light, The Pearl Button and many more followed, which brings us to The Cordillera of Dreams, his latest, filmed entirely in his native Chile.

He looks back at the history of his country, his life and how quickly his childhood turned into a flight for his own safety.   And yet here, in the mountains near Santiago, he is able find solace and is able to focus on the past … and in many ways, the now.

Through stunning, even-breathtaking cinematography (by Samuel Lahu), Guzmán showcases the rugged beauty of Chile and blends in interviews with artists and professionals who have lived through the dramatic history of his country.   An amazing journey; a marvelous story, that will be available from Icarus Films on Sept. 8 as both DVD and Blu-ray editions.

Bonus goodies include a newly-prepared video session with filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, a short documentary on Guzmán's Films, a making-of featurette, deleted scenes and extended interview sessions.

The Cordillera of Dreams is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.

Of note, back in 2015 Icarus Films made available the eight-disc collection titled Five Films by Patricio Guzman, which includes The Battle of Chile, Parts 1, 2 & 3, Chile, the Obstinate Memory, The Pinochet Case, Salvador Allende, Nostalgia for the Light … and more.

Mill Creek Entertainment's Priced-To-Collect 4-Pack DVD Releases Head To Market On Sept. 15

Your eyes are not deceiving you.  $14.95 is the suggest retail price point (and that’s before discounts offered at retail) for not one, or even two, but four films on DVD.  

Of course, Mill Creek Entertainment, the world champion for delivery priced-to-collect DVD and Blu-ray products, has carved out this special for Sept. 15.  And, we might add, it’s not just one collection of four films, delivered as a double-disc collection, but two separate DVD editions are lined up for release on that particular street-date Tuesday.   

So let us get down to business.   First up is the collection titled Con Men: 4 Action Movies, which is top-lined by director Peter Berg’s 2003 action flick, The Rundown, which was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s breakout film as an action star.  

Sure, he was a WWF/WWE World Champion, but he needed something besides his role as Mathayus/Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns (2001) and The Scorpion King (2002) to prove that he was more than just a creature of lore … The Rundown, co-starring Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken and Rosario Dawson was exactly that vehicle!! 

Also included in the Con Men: 4 Action Movies are director Philip Noyce’s 2006 political thriller, Catch a Fire, starring Tim Robbins; filmmaker Robert Patton-Spruill’s 1998 heist film, Body Count, featuring an all-star cast that includes David Caruso, Donnie Wahlberg, Ving Rhames, Forest Whitaker, John Leguizamo and Linda Fiorentino, and rounding out the quartet of films is writer/director Scott Sanders’ 1999 turf-war crime drama, Thick as Thieves, starring Alec Baldwin.

The second priced-to-own DVD collection arriving on Sept. 15 from Mill Creek Entertainment is titled Opposites Attract: Romantic Comedy 4 Movie Collection.

These romantic-themed dramas and suspense films are headed up by writer/director Tony Gilroy’s spy-versus-spy romantic comedy, Duplicity, starring Clive Owen and Julia Roberts.

Next up is auteur filmmaker Woody Allen’s 2006 crime comedy about the Tarot Card Killer, Scoop, which features a large ensemble cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman and Ian McShane.

Rounding out this four-film collection — and remember it is priced at just $14.95 — are writer/director Noah Baumbach’s romantic comedy Greenberg, teaming Ben Stiller with Greta Gerwig and director Neil LaBute’s 2002 film adaptation of the A.S. Byatt 1990 best-selling novel, Possession, which stars Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow as competing literary sleuths who find their interests are more than just things associated with dusty Victorian literature.